"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
Walter Benjamin
20th century German philosopher
(I can hear you now; "How will he connect this one to business?")
If we substitute "trust" for "love" and "expectations" for "hope", are we not zeroing in on the goal we have for all new hires?
And note this is not to suggest that you don't do all possible to have reason to trust, as well as to establish expectations for performance, all prior to offering the job, but once you've done that . . .
The message is, do your best to find the right people and then step back and let them perform.
Well, in th epractical world,particularly in anorganization, it would be simply very difficult to 'find' trust-worthy people.
ReplyDeleteWhat is normally done is that unless proved otherwise, do trust all - in an increasigly scale in terms of the value of the trust.
Also, the break down of trust these days is rather frequent.Hence do develop a temper where you can take on shocks of broken trusts.
Your reference to "these days" Ashok makes me wonder how different it might have been in years past; for example during my father's or grandfather's time.
ReplyDeleteI occasionally find myself thinking that "people today just don't (fill in the blank with whatever you wish)", but is that just yearning for some idealized past that never really was as good as we think it was?
And regardless, does it matter? We must play the cards we're dealt.
@ Bill Matthies
ReplyDeleteTo the extent that I could observe in those days - i.e. my father's time - the movement of time was considered slower than what is considered at present.Hence, one would get enough time to build a strong relationship for it to be worthy of one's trust. That is wahy when someone would not measure upto the expected degree of trust, one was terribly pained too.
I do agree that one should never idealize the past. But , in my view, if one can learn a few things from the past and deploy that knowledge in the present, it would indeed be a great help to play the cards as they are dealt.